Daniel McLaughlin

@waldojaquith Yes! I was just watching this talk, which is full of great tidbits of browser history youtu.be/kNzoswFIU9M?t=…

@ironicsans It looks like the subpixels are next to one another rather than stacked, so they still behave as additive even though the screen doesn’t glow.

Color e-ink looks like it has potential but I don’t get why you’d want it RGB instead of CMYK if it’s meant to be used in reflected light. gizmodo.com/this-could-fin…

@rossgoodwin Went back and dug up my source of the phrase. That first poem seems particularly fitting! diggers.org/bibcit_fulltex…

@Codicologist @LibColleen I worked on a project like that several years ago: smalldesignfirm.com/project/leuven… Projector resolution and contrast limit how realistic the facsimile can be, but it’s a really cool interaction model!

@john_overholt @binstructions It was a bitly vanity domain. Replacing bi4 dot us with bit dot ly leads to tirania.org/blog/archive/2…

@morisy Here’s what was going on, in all the gory detail codementor.io/satwikkansal/d…

@morisy `is` tests for identity rather than equality. You probably want ==. Is confidence a string or an integer?

@abtran What do you call data journalists singing 4-part harmonies? A Ba-R-bershop Quartet

One of these things is not like the other

One of the coolest things a Dove cubesat has captured—watch the Soyuz loft our 48 Flock 2k satellites into space. planet.com/pulse/satellit…

Facial recognition: it’s coming to an archive near you! blog.archive.org/2017/07/19/int… charliebyers.org/facial-recogni…

“Two frightened landlords, a rather jittery landlady and a landlady who denied she was intimidated but said she hated the clangor of battle… twitter.com/abtran/status/…

Ascribing legal weight to the town-by-town results of a statewide referendum, after the fact, is such a strange move bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/…

@mathowie We’ve moved on to the son-which-meets

@jkeefe Looks like it hasn’t updated in a few months, but the Internet Archive has years of scrapes from the public stream archive.org/search.php?que…

@ericwbailey Twitter needs a “faved under protest” button.

Something like TEI but for maps instead of text.

Hey Lazyweb: Is there a standard for encoding printed maps without baking in assumptions about the map’s relationship with physical reality?

If there were like a sports talk radio show but for heckling Twitter’s product team, I would listen and call in.